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9780197776735

Seizing Citizenship Frederick Douglass's Abolitionist Republicanism

by Yaure, Philip
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    9780197776735

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    0197776736

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2025-07-17
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

In the years leading up to the U.S. Civil War, former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass maintained that enslaved Black Americans were already American citizens. Through a systematic analysis of his political writings from the 1840s through the 1890s, Philip Yaure shows that Douglass' declaration of Black Americans' citizenship is the locus of a profound innovation in republican political philosophy. Seizing Citizenship argues that Frederick Douglass reimagined the republican concept of citizenship, on which persons are citizens because they contribute to the polity, to cast the everyday resistance of Black Americans against slavery and white supremacy as activity that constitutes them as American citizens. The resistance of Black Americans forged them into a people with the collective power to remake America's civic ethos in a racially just and inclusive fashion. Douglass advanced an abolitionist republicanism, on which persons seize standing as free citizens of a free polity through the struggle to dismantle the oppressive institutions that dominate and exploit them. Douglass's republican politics strives not to overcome our vulnerability to one another, but instead to deepen such vulnerability on terms conducive to our shared emancipation and collective flourishing.

Author Biography

Philip Yaure is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Tech, where he specializes in the history of African American political philosophy, philosophy of race, and social philosophy. He completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy (Dissertation: To Reforge the Nation: Emancipatory Politics and Antebellum Black Abolitionism) at Columbia University in 2020. His writing appears in venues including Ethics, the Journal of Politics, Philosophical Studies, American Political Thought, and The Pluralist.

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